Swimming dolphins don’t need to cheat

Measurement finds no sign of long-predicted lack of power

 

BUBBLE BURSTER  Analyzing the movements of many tiny bubbles when a bottlenose dolphin swims through them has allowed researchers to reject an old notion that muscle power alone can’t explain dolphin speed.  

Timothy Wei, Paul Legac and F. Fish

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Swimming dolphins generate thrust just fine and have no need to compensate for supposedly underpowered muscles.